This data collection provides information on family
formation and dissolution among young adults. Families who had given
birth to their first, second, or fourth child in 1961 comprised the
group of Detroit-area Caucasian couples who were interviewed and
surveyed over the period 1962-1993. The resulting longitudinal study
encompasses seven waves of data collected from mothers across the
entire span of their offspring's childhood. Included are demographic,
social, and economic information abo... (more info)

This data collection provides information on family
formation and dissolution among young adults. Families who had given
birth to their first, second, or fourth child in 1961 comprised the
group of Detroit-area Caucasian couples who were interviewed and
surveyed over the period 1962-1993. The resulting longitudinal study
encompasses seven waves of data collected from mothers across the
entire span of their offspring's childhood. Included are demographic,
social, and economic information about the parental family,
information about the attitudes, values, and behavior of both the
mother and the father, and information about the mother's desires and
expectations for her child's education, career attainments, and
marriage. The collection also offers three waves of interview data
collected from the children at ages 18 through 23. These data describe
the young adults' attitudes and values, their expectations for school,
work, marriage, and childbearing, and their perceptions of their
parents' willingness to be of assistance to them. Life history
calendar files for 1985 and 1993 detail the young adults' periods of
cohabitation, marriage, separation, divorce, childbearing, living
arrangements, education, paid employment, and military service.

Access Notes

These data are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions. Because you are not
logged in, we cannot verify that you
will be able to download these data.

This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA
is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

Universe:
Detroit-area Caucasian families who had given birth to
their first, second, or fourth child in 1961.

Data Types:
event/transaction data,
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The first wave of these data are released by ICPSR
under the title DETROIT AREA STUDY, 1962: FAMILY GROWTH IN DETROIT
(ICPSR 7401).

The variable FAMID62, which appears as the first
variable in each dataset, can be used to link individual records to
form family-level records.

The codebooks for Parts 1-6 are
available only in hardcopy form. The codebooks for Parts 7-9 are
provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Methodology

Data Source:

personal interviews and questionnaires

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1993-05-13

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

1998-04-06 Data and documentation for the 1993 wave (Part 7,
Mothers' Interview Data, Part 8, Children's Interview Data, and Part
9, 1985-1993 Child Life History Calendar Data) have been added to this
collection. SAS and SPSS data definition statements for all the
datasets in the collection have also been prepared, and the new
variable FAMID62, which appears as the first variable in each dataset,
can be used to link individual records to form family-level records,
replacing variables formerly used to identify family links
(previously, each wave had a different variable number representing
the 1962 family ID). In addition, OSIRIS dictionaries and frequencies
are no longer available for this collection.